Ciji Ware | Can You Name That Theme February 8, 2010
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In addition to her career as a novelist, CIJI WARE
broadcast daily in Los Angeles as a reporter and
commentator on radio and television for more than twenty
years. The author of six published books, her numerous
awards include an Emmy and a Dupont for her television
work, a Silver Gavel for magazine journalism, and "Best
Fictionalized Biography" from Romantic Times magazine for
her first novel, ISLAND OF THE SWANS. In 1993, she was
elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,
and in 2001 won a Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence in the
coveted "Classics" category.
Ware's most recent novel from Random House/Ivy is A LIGHT
ON THE VERANDA. She has also published the non-fiction
work, SHARING PARENTHOOD AFTER DIVORCE.
Ciji Ware and her husband, Internet executive Tony Cook,
live on Nob Hill in San Francisco, California in a Julia
Morgan building designed by the architect of Hearst Castle.
She is a graduate of Harvard University in history and
served as the first woman graduate of the College to be
President of the Harvard Alumni/ae Association. In 1995,
her son Jamie also graduated from Harvard and currently
works in the film industry as a cinematographer and editor.
Ware's late father, Harlan Ware, wrote the radio
classic "One Man's Family," and was also a novelist,
publishing with Random House. Her late uncles Leon Ware and
Darrell Ware wrote novels and screenplays. Her ancestor,
William Ware, was the author of ZENOBIA, published in 1898.
The research for Ware's novels that seamlessly interweave
history and contemporary life have taken her to the
Highlands of Scotland, Wales, England and Ireland; to
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Natchez
Mississippi, among many other destinations. Presently she
is at work on a novel set closer to home in the tumultuous
year following the devastating 1906 San Francisco
earthquake and fire.